DS charger When I plug in my son's DS for charging, the light comes on for a second and goes off, the unit will not charge. What could the problem be and how can I fix it without have to purchase a new one

It's a faulty main board. You can try and fix it by doing this.

you can buy a car charger for the ds and it might be possible to charge. hope it helps!

Has probably corrupted the DS's memory, small though it is. Replace the memory to unfreeze. Alternatively get angry and stamp on it. (2nd method worked on my psp, though not advised.)

It's either the charger or the charging socket. Take it into your local video games store or use a friends charger to see which one it is

Hi three things come to mind, you dropped it but usually they wont admit it (dont go mad they usually all break when you do) if it rattles the capacitor under the power switch just fell off (common you have to solder it back on) if not that you replaced the bottom screen and forgot to insulate the metal of the back of the screen against the circuit board and blew either the f1 or f2 fuses (Replace them if you did) last thing i wont go into if you havent pulled it apart if you have reply and i will tell you Good Luck

This kind of problem is usually caused by either of this 3 things: Either the problem is the battery not being able to charge anymore(bettery would need to be replaced), or the charger does not give any charge to the batter(recommend try another charger), or last would be the console charger port( would need to replace console, or repair charger por,not recommended)

That little black thing goes into the charger so without it, or something to replace it, you can not charge, unless you somehow found a way to take out the battery and charge it outside of the ds. I would highly recommend sending it back to Nintendo or something like that.

GET A NEW CHARGER HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE my bad caps lol

Really sounds like a dead battery. The DS will not work if the battery is bad even when it's plugged in. You get the quick flash of the power light and that's it.

maybe the charger is broken?or the tape of the nintendo DS is had a virus?